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    What is that Noise

    Around here (North Carolina) we call them "pistol shrimp". We Asked a Marine Biologist to Explain Pistol Shrimp Powers
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    Hydro RIN ID marking is a "?"

    You're talking PROOF MARKS, not re-qualification stamps. Luxfer uses the arrow, Asahi the "circle Asahi", Metal Impact the "MI", Norris the "diamond N" etc. Thos are proof marks, not a RIN number. The hydro shop doesn't have a proof mark, he has a RIN. The cylinder with the "?" wasn't taken...
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    Hydro RIN ID marking is a "?"

    Still using "?" in 1984? 50's and 60's I get. I inspect steel cylinders all the time from the 1970's and they have RIN #'s on the original hydro stamp. That's weird. One of those, "By God, I been doing it this way for 30 years! Never kilt nobody!" <spit tobacco juice> hydro shops. LOL
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    Is dive certification really necessary?

    If I have 32% in a cylinder and it sits for 6 months, what percent is it gonna analyze then, assuming all the other factors like analyzer accuracy are the same? I can see a 1% variance maybe the calibration difference in my analyzer and his. But I don't think it was coincidence that his...
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    SSI Dive Log Tracking

    Can they use the ScubaPro computer I sold the guy in New York that had 58 logged dives on it? How does the staff guy know that computer belongs to me? What if I was to give my shearwater with 170 logged dives on it to my buddy and tell him to go show it to the dive shop guru and scan that code...
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    Is dive certification really necessary?

    Remember I said he labeled them wrong. My HP100's were about half full of 36% when I dropped them off. They only banked 30, so I told him that was fine. He filled them with 30% and wrote 30% on the yellow tape. I suppose his theory was that if he put 30% in a cylinder, it must be full of...
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    Is dive certification really necessary?

    At the time the relevant law was, "It's my fill station, Jack." LOL He was probably a PSI graduate and was citing the PSI policy for cylinder handling.
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    SSI Dive Log Tracking

    I've been asked before. It's on their liability release form at the LDS. They didn't verify. I guess as long as the number you write down isn't something crazy ridiculous, they just accept it as true. I suspect it's more to cover their butt than anything else. If you have five dives and...
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    SSI Dive Log Tracking

    What even the purpose then? Just a fancy QR code? I just did a google search and logged a dive from "Happy Bubbles Dive Center" in Turkey. Never been there.
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    Tank tumbling process

    7" I guess.
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    Is dive certification really necessary?

    Cylinders that contain anything other than air are supposed to be "conspicuously labeled to their contents" according to the "industry standard". Although nobody cares around my area. Most dives shops interpret that to mean the usual nitrox band. When he said it was "the law" I kind of asked...
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    Is dive certification really necessary?

    I don't know. it was out first time down there. I don't know how knowledgeable the guy was or what the shops policy was/is. Carlos was his name I think. Said he was a former Marine and a scuba instructor. Two of our shops here don't care about oxy clean for their banked nitrox. They fill...
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    Is dive certification really necessary?

    At least the stickers were only $5 each. I suppose we could declined and drove all over the Keys looking a place that would fill cylinders without a nitrox label with nitrox, but it was less hassle to just pay the sticker fee.
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    Is dive certification really necessary?

    No. They just said they couldn't fill them because the cylinders weren't properly marked. Then said they had nitrox bands for sale in the dive shop. We just wanted fills, so we said, yeah sure, whatever. They put the stickers on and filled them. (and then labeled the contents wrong because...
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    Leisure pro

    It is, but it's more expensive. UPS delivers bulk to your local post office. Your post office takes it from your local post office to your home. Given the USPS record, I wouldn't be surprised how long they let it lay around until they get around to delivering it, if at all. My son and Xwife...
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    Leisure pro

    Yeah I meant reviews anywhere. Far as I know all three (I haven't even read them) complaints on this forum regarding LP may be valid. My input was that my experience over the last 6 years with LP has been only positive and that some customers everywhere tend to play the "poor abused victim"...
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    Is dive certification really necessary?

    Well the drivers license thing is actually a good analogy. See it actually isn't illegal to drive a car without a license. You just can't drive it on the governments highway without a license. I grew up on 300 acres in rural North Carolina. As a 12 year old, I drove the heck out of that...
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    Leisure pro

    I understand. Since you quoted my post, note that I did say "some". Look, I've owned and managed three successful businesses over the last 20 years. There isn't a business on the planet that doesn't have some customer gripes. It just ain't possible in real life. If you find a business that...
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    Is dive certification really necessary?

    We got fills at Rainbow Reef in Key Largo last year all week. They didn't ask to see a cert card or a nitrox card. Maybe we just "looked like divers" or something? They did say they couldn't fill two of our cylinders because they didn't have a nitrox band on them, but I suspect that was...
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    Tank tumbling process

    No all the air comes out the top. I thought about that but since the commercially manufactured "fancy" dryer at the hydro shop just uses a steel pipe with no holes in the sides, I figured must not be that important. I didn't want to use steel pipe because I cringe every time Cody slings a...
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